"To find recreation in amusement is not happiness." — Blaise Pascal
"To find recreation in amusement is not happiness."
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525 Quotes by Blaise Pascal
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In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see…
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If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to…
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All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in…
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Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a…
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Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their…
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Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and…
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If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands…
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More Amusement Quotes
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To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that…
— Darren Aronofsky
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the…
— Honore de Balzac
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their…
— George Bancroft
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Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
— Joey Adams
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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
— Max Beckmann
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
— Joseph Addison
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I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I…
— Nolan Bushnell
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept…
— Lewis Carroll
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I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they…
— Leonard Cohen
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Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the…
— W. W. Rouse Ball
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Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind,…
— Benjamin Franklin
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